Racionální Bible - Kniha první, Genesis – Prager Dennis (2023)

The first book of the Bible presents a moral God for all people (something unimaginable in the mythical world of tribal gods) and explains the difference between good and evil, for God created free man for a transcendent purpose ('be holy, as I am holy') and entrusted him with a unique role in the struggle against ideological (pagan) forces of decay. This world is a miraculous gift to humanity, and man is its steward. A world without people would be meaningless. ***** The invisible and incorporeal Lord proves that material reality is not the only one and that life is infinitely more. A just God means that truth and justice will prevail, though not always in this world. The supernatural God exists beyond the world He created, which is knowledge that has eradicated earlier nature deities and cults that today return with the loss of faith. God is loving and at the same time asks to be loved. Before the Bible, humanity did not know the value of 'man created in God's image' nor the Father in heaven, whose children are brothers and sisters. This knowledge changed the world. ***** Dennis Prager in his commentaries explains the remarkable concordance of the book of Genesis with scientific findings about the origin of the world and shows how, in Western society, due to the declining significance...